I think Lukaku will be world class

di Santo had everything other than talent. Cool name, good looks, nice attitude

CSTP - I don't think he's overrated. The word overrated is overrated Peoples opinions on him and what his potential and current level was are all different, dosen't really mean he's overrated as such, it just means that some people value him higher than others. I think we all expected far to much from him,that he would come here and go into our team (not straight away) and then start scoring double figures in his first seasons with us. Was never going to happen.

He has the potential to be one of the best in the world,easily. At 18 to a pun on it, he has all the time in the world to become one of the best CF's.

Awesome - I haven't watched a single episode of the new series. When i seen the promo adds i didn't even smile. It just looked ruined.

I was never that excited about Sahar TBH, although I guess back then I was more interested in the skilful players, I remember always thinking Chelsea need our own Ronaldo (though I always wound up my many ManU friends about him). Which was also why I was so excited whe we signed Quaresma

Surely teams no reserve football doesn't translate to first team football? Di Santo for example.

The player I was most excited about was Kakuta, though how people can say Lukaku is average when he's barely been played doesn't make sense. They need time, look at Nani at United

BK - Yeah our youth and reserve team have some excellent players coming through,problem is are they going to actually come through into our team? At Barca most of their B team players don't start making more regular first team appearances until they are 20-22.

We probably have about 5-6 players imo that could be in our first team in the next 2-4 seasons. Depending if they develope as well as the fans and club hope.

Two and a Half Men was brilliant with Charlie Sheen, haven't watched it once since he left

Randomer - I suppose you could argue you that one that they wouldn't know until they tried if that player didn't have any first team football. It's a lot harder to judge if the player is coming from a club like Chelsea,United,City etc as they know for a fact that getting into the first team is a lot harder.

Agree with what Steve said regarding young players

Think Arsenal will draw 1-1 gaosl from Pato and RVP

*goals

My list of players I would bet on making it from our reserves to at least squad player right now are Kalas, Chalobah, Piazon, Feruz and Ake (Ok the latter two are U18's but they still play for the reserves a fair bit)

Arsenal XI vs Milan: Szczesny, Sagna, Vermaelen, Koscielny, Gibbs, Arteta, Song, Ramsey, Walcott, Rosický, Van Persie

I'm still fans of others mind, just don't think they'll make it at Chelsea for their quality or how many players we have in that position, like Blackman or ADC

No AOC = No threat. Quick, buy him while they're not looking

Yoof Cup

Abbiati; Abate Mexes Silva Antonini; Seedorf Van Bommel Nocerino; Boateng; Ibrahimovic Robinho.

I think Pato is injured.Robinho to score them

Wenger bottled it.

Ah TCP you just reminded me to switch to Chelseatv YouthCup

BK -

Ones that i can see in the next 2-4 seasons are:

Piazon
Ake
Kalas
Feruz
Chalobah
Nditi
Affane
Osmanovic

I think they all stand a fair chance, probably within the next 5 seasons,of being in the first team or in the squad.


There's others such as Deen-Conteh and Rohan Ince,but i think that depends on what happens with players like Bertrand,Van Aanholt,Ferreira etc to see where they stand. Also Hutchinson.

Feruz

Zenit 2-2 Benfica Cardozo

Tuff game. 'Ammers

Does anyone know how Matic is doing at Benfica? Would he have been any worse than Meireles?

OH FFS TCP I FORGOT THE YOUTH CUP MATCH THREAD WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME